Could Sony Introduce A New PS3 Model At E3?

TheSixthAxis writes: Further to our discussion piece over the weekend – where we talked about PlayStation Plus enhancements and streaming – we’ve been giving a little bit more thought to one part in particular.

He told Official PlayStation Magazine UK that “If you look back at the history on PS1, PS2 the vast majority of the business that we did on both those platforms was done at the sub £129 price points. Now we’ve only got to £199 in the UK a couple of month back so you can see there’s still a lot of PS3’s potentially to be sold.”

The built in power supply and the Blu-ray drive take's up all the space. HDD take's hardly no space its a 2.5 HDD so it's small probably the smallist thing in the ps3. Trust me i know, I've opened up a number of fat ps3's and Slim ps3's

They should redesign it to make it look like a smaller version of the original ps3(piano black with chrome, coloured/twistable logo, touch sensitive buttons, etc). The current ps3 slim looks way too cheap.

I think the current version is sufficient. It's small, sleek, quiet and works like a charm. Why should Sony waste resources making another console revision? It would be cool, but it's definitely not necessary at this point in its lifecycle.

In order to do price cuts they need to cut the cost of making the console. That means shrinking the chips. Shrinking the chips means less power so smaller and cheaper power supply. Smaller and cheaper cooling. Smaller and cheaper case. Smaller and cheaper box and packages. That is how you get a $199 PS3. Price cuts come when you drop the cost of making a product. Not just because it been on the market for a while.

PS2 has gotten revisions beyond PS3's release (through November 2007), so no they aren't done revising with the current model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

They'll always be looking to make it smaller or lighter for less materials, storage, and shipping costs.

*The original was a PLAYSTATION 3 (fat/phat). *The current model is a PlayStation 3 (regular - similar size to the original PS2). It was specifically not named a 'Slim' or 'PSThree'. http://www.islabit.com/wp-c... *There will very likely still be a slimmer version.

I'm on my 3rd PS3. 1 Fat 80 GB and 2nd slim 120 GB. My 1st Slim was about 3 years and the blu-ray failed and I didn't want to send it in for a hefty fee and or risk losing everything due to a HDD failure soon after.

why would they just start on playstation vita and stop just to make a whole new console instead? OF COURSE NOT theres already been a story like this a couple days ago too for the record and everyone there was agreeing with me, maybe in a couple years, maybe sooner, we might get it, this is all speculation, the old version is fine as long as you reguarly update it and dont keep to much saved memory on it

probably not but maybe.. im fine with my slim model & my upgraded 60GB model tho.. i say dont bother & just focus time & resources creating PS4 or Orbis RIGHT...This gen was far worse than the past generations game wise.. It was ALL about shooters & COD cuz thats what sells these days.. CANT WAIT 4 Last of Us, Last Gaurdian, & Ascension to come out

Bring back PS2 compatibility and include a couple of full PS3 games pre-installed on the hard drive. Backwards compatibility would drive people to it. Also, most people don't even KNOW that you can download full titles...and sometimes for much cheaper than retail, if you're in PlayStation Plus. :) It would be a great promotion for the PlayStation Store.

The only reason I would ever get another new version of the PS3 is if they brought back PS2 compatibility. I might still not get it then just because my PS2 games have slowly but surely disappeared and starting all of your beloved saves again would really suck.